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This paper was prepared to analyse land use pattern in the Madi valley from the ecological viewpoint. Though the Madi valley is the biggest agricultural land in the Tinau watershed area, due to ecological and environmental problems, the land use pattern has been adversely affected, which led to low agricultural production and frequent crop failure. Due to rapid population growth, there has...
The objective of the paper is to report on the personality structure of the Gurungs, a preliterate group traditionally inhabiting the mid-western hilly region of Nepal and to compare findings with those reported by other investigators in other cultures.
Modal personality is a concept developed in psychological literature on national character and refers to the most frequently occurring...
The initial interests in the non-native varieties of English such as the Indian and the Nigerian, were restricted largely to a descriptive curiosity, to the description and analysis of the variety, of the levels, the 'deviant' features, problem of intelligibility, and the like. However, more recently, in the study of non-native and 'nativised' English, the nature of emphasis has changed from...
Most anthropological studies during the last several decades have tended to be cross-sections of a particular society at one point in time. Historical materials in anthropological reports were consciously or unconsciously ignored because it was considered unimportant to the theoretical framework (due to the influence of the structural-functional approach in anthropology). However, the absence...
Conrtibutions to Nepalese Studies, a bilingual (English and Nepali) journal appeared as a semi-annual journal for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS) in 1973. From its eleventh volume it produces three issues a year. This index catalogues the articles that have appeared in the journal since 1973 up to 1985.
Livestock husbandry is an essential part of the traditional economy of many high altitude Tibetans in Nepal. The importance of animals in Tibetan communities in the Himalayas is reflected in the intensity of ritual activity and sociopolitical organisation which often accompany herding.
In some Himalayan areas there have been major socio-economic changes in recent years. Livestock and...
Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, has the distinction of being the foremost site of religious pilgrimage of the Buddhists of the whole world. The history of Lumbini Garden begins with the erection of the Chunar sandstone inscription by King Asoka when he visited the site on the direction of Mahasthavira Upagupta in 250BC. This script was deciphered in the nineteenth century by British...
Analysis of fertility is critical to any discussion on a community's environmental adaptation. Fertility and mortality schedules together determine the major characteristics of a population closed to migration - such as age distribution and growth rate - that have a direct bearing on household economy and the balance between community size and available resources. In addition, community level...
In relation to their numbers (an estimated 1,500 households) Thakalis may the most studied group in Nepal. They have been studied by 15 trained anthropologists who have published nearly 50 works on them.
This is a comprehensive bibliography on material that has been written on the Thakalis.
The author found a vamsavali manuscript in the National Archives, Kathmandu and recognised the text it as a complete version of the fragment of a vamsavali - known as the Kaisher Vamsavali (VK). It was discovered by Petech in 1956 in the private library of the late Field Marshall Kaisher Shamsher.
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